Process for the production of artificial tobacco-leaves.



. To all whom it may concern:

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LOUIS mama, or mansiaman, GERMANY.

PROCESS F038. THE PRODUCTION OF ARTIFICIAL TOBACCO-LEAVES.

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Specification of Letters Yatent.

Patented July 22, was.

Application filed November 25, 1911. Serial No. 662,895.

Be it known that I, LOUIS Mama, a'subject of the German Emperor,residing at 19 Waldhornstrasse, Karlsr-uhe, Baden, Germany, haveinvented a certain new and useful Process for the Production ofArtificial Tobacco-Leaves, of which the following is .a specification.

This invention has for its object to render the waste produced in thepreparation of cigars and cigarettes from fermented tobacco and whichwas hitherto generally worthless capable of. again being employed in themanufacture of cigars and cigarettes and also of ipe tobacco b formingit into continuous at leaves wit out the employment of any foreignsubstances' The process is .carried into eifect'in the following manner:A certain percentage of fine tobacco veins, of which the height dependsupon the purpose for which the tobacco leaf is to be employed issoftened and soaked for about 24 hours in cold water and then ground andreduced to fibers in a pulping device, in the same manner as whenproducing paper, to a broth-like mass. To

this mass is then added the necessary quantity of waste from cigars,cigarettes or pipe tobacco, whereupon the Whole, mass is then placedinto a long sieve, the Water removed and by means of, rollers -i tisk'pressed into flat sheets which are then reduced in size according tothe purpose for which they are required. For the purpose of againimparting to the tobacco. leaf thus produced its .color and flexibilitywhich it has lost during this process, a certain amount of licorice-ju1ce is applied on its passage through the rollers, which imparts toit the natural color, as also a coating of glycerin which is adapted toimpart to the leaf the necessary flexibility. For the manufacture ofcigars, the tobacco leaves thus obtained are employed as the covering orsurrounding leaves and are cut into pieces corresponding to the size ofthe cigars, or if they are to serve as the body of the cigars they arecut into small-strips. The cigars thus produced have the advantage incomparison with those of' natural tobacco leaves that there is a uniformburning and admission of air, and in comparison with the employment of abadly burning covering tobacco by the snow White ash. Besides this agreater number of cigars can be produced in the same time by a worker asthe necessary time .for placing the leaves in their proper positionrequired for natural tobacco leaves 15 avoided. The cigars may 'also berolled more uniformly and smoothly than has hitherto been the case. Thecigars produced from these tobacco leaves have the reat advantage thatthey require no plant or drying as is the case when employing naturaltobacco leaves, but they are immediatelely in a good dry condition andready for sa e.

The roduction of cigarette tobacco requires a out 5% of pure tobaccoveins which are treated in the hereinbefore described manner and'tothebroth-like mass produced- 95% of waste of cigarette tobacco added. Thewater is then removed from the whole mass on. a sieve and .it is pressedin the known manner into fiat sheets as required and "again out forcigarette tobacco. This artificial cigarette tobacco is advantageouslycharacterized in comparison with the natural tobacco as it remains inlong fibers whereby only very unimportant waste is produced onmanufacture which is of great importance What I.claim as my inventionand desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A process for theproduction of artificial tobacco leaves consisting in pulping tobaccoveins, mixing tobacco waste with the pulped veins, andpressing themixture into a sheet. I

2. A process for the production of arti ficial tobacco leaves consistingin softening and soaking tobacco veins in cold water,-

pulping tobacco veins, mixing tobacco waste with the pulped veins, andpressing the mixture into a sheet.

3. A process for the production of artificial tobacco leaves consistingin pulping tobacco veins, mixing tobacco waste with the pulped veins,removing the moisture from the mixture and presslng the mixture into asheet.

4. A process for the production of arti- 5 ficial tobacco leavesconsisting in pulping tobacco veins, mixing tobacco waste with thepulped veins, pressln the mixture into a sheet and cutt-in the s eetinto strips.

5. A process 10 ficial tobaccoleaves consisting in pulping tobaccoveins, mixing tobacco waste with the or the production of artipulpedveins, and ressing the mixture into a sheet and adding iicorice juiceand glycerin while the sheet is being ressed.

" In testimony whereo I have hereunto 15 signed my name to thisspecification in the.

presence of two subscribing witnesses. I LOUIS MAIER.

Witnesses:

A. O. TITTMANN, G. SCHIMPF.

